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Michel Fingesten
Ex Libris Doctor Turis Lustig - Etching by Michel Fingesten - 1930s

1936

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Ex Libris Doctor Turis Lustig is an etching realized by Michel Fingesten in 1930s. 30x24 cm. it includes passpartout. Handigned in the lower right part. Good conditions. Michel Fingesten (1884-1943),of an Austrian weaver father and a Jewish mother originally from Trieste. At the age of 16 he studied at the Vienna Academy together with Oskar Kokoschka From 1902 to 1906 he wandered around America, and then Australia, to then arrive in Palermo in 1907. He traveled up the peninsula passing through Trieste and returning to Germany, settling first in Munich in Franz von Stuck's studio, practicing caricature and small format graphics and then in Berlin. In 1913 he began to engrave. He returned to Italy in 1935 to visit his maternal relatives from Trieste and remained there due to the racial persecutions to which the Jews in Silesia were subjected, settling in Milan. In this period he engraved about 500 exlibris On 9 October 1940 he was arrested and interned as a foreigner in the Civitella del Tronto camp and will be accused by the Nazis of having painted degenerate art He will die on 8 October 1943, after the liberation of the prison camp by the allies, due to an infection resulting from a surgical operation carried out in Palazzo Sersale di Cerisano, used as a hospital at that time. His remains rest in the cemetery of the small village in the Cosenza greenhouses.
  • Creator:
    Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943, Italian)
  • Creation Year:
    1936
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11.82 in (30 cm)Width: 9.45 in (24 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Roma, IT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: T-1387311stDibs: LU650312063142

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